Re:Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across a...
by captainmuon on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @07:56AM
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One would think the visuals of WinUI would lend itself to a lean implementaion in HTML.
I think the problem with XAML is, that it is not really declarative. Declarative would be: "I want a list/detail view, and the detail view has the following actions." and then you apply a theme for look&feel. Rather, you quite explicitly place rectangles, borders, and so on, in a scene. In UNO, a button doesn't translate to a HTML button, but to four nested <div>s and a <p>.
I think the problem with XAML is, that it is not really declarative. Declarative would be: "I want a list/detail view, and the detail view has the following actions." and then you apply a theme for look&feel. Rather, you quite explicitly place rectangles, borders, and so on, in a scene. In UNO, a button doesn't translate to a HTML button, but to four nested <div>s and a <p>.